Historic Alameda High School: A timeline

Tonight, the first of four meetings being conducted to gather the community’s input regarding the future of Historic Alameda High School. But it won’t be the first time schools leaders have sought to address seismic safety issues at the 88-year-old school. Efforts to address seismic safety issues on the old campus have been underway since 1935, a decade after the school opened to students. But much of the campus remains unsafe for student use, and has since been vacated by district administrators and the Alameda Adult School and fenced off. The Alamedan collected and reviewed a series of district reports and communications, news clippings and online sources to construct a timeline of efforts to address Historic Alameda High’s seismic issues along with the needs of the school’s students. Here’s what we know.

If you can’t make the meetings, we’ll be streaming three of them live on The Alamedan – including tonight’s meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. – and providing up-to-the-minute coverage via Twitter. We’ll also be taking your comments and questions to pass along, so feel free to hit us @TheAlamedan for us to pass along to mediators Jeff Cambra and Alice Lai-Bitker or drop a comment on the site.